Re: Trip to Tenerife, Canary Islands
- Subject: Re: Trip to Tenerife, Canary Islands
- From: K* K*
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:15:40 -0800 (PST)
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 marianoo@wanadoo.es wrote:
> The Drago Tree is reputed to be oldest tree in the world, up to 2000
> years.
Not a chance - bristlecone pines are much better than that - over 4700 yrs
old. See, e.g, http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/intro.html or
http://www.extremescience.com/OldestLivingThing.htm
Google search for the oldest living plants produced also something about
estimated age of a creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) in the Mojave Desert
being 12,000 years, and a 43000 years old Lomatia tasmanica...
As for the really oldest living thing, check out "Isolation Of A 250
Milion-Year-Old Bacterium From A Primary Salt Crystal," Nature 407:
897-900.
KK
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